NAME: Jones - English and Welsh: patronymic from the Middle English personal name Jon(e) (see John). The surname is especially common in Wales and southern central England. In North America this name has absorbed various cognate and like-sounding surnames from other languages.
Jones - Welsh surname meaning the "son of John". The Jones ancestry is traced to Bleddyn-ap-Cynfyn, King of Pawys in Wales, in 1046. His coat of arms was a rampant scarlet lion on a gold shield. That symbol is still on the Jones coat-of-arms, accompanied by the motto "Look to the past". The first of this family in our country is believed to be Rev John Jones who settled in Connecticut in 1635.

1. Samuel JONES b: ABT 1765 in VA Or Wales